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If you look at the top row and the middle image, you'll see that yet another Toxicroak has exactly the same colour scheme as the allegedly 'Shiny' Toxicroak that Saturn owns. If you ask me, I can't see the animators having the first two showcased Toxicroak's appearing as Shiny ones back to back - especially two different Toxicroak. As well as this, its official Sugimori artwork is shown to have its Shiny colouration.

I could go on all day about how either there was a mistake in the colouration of the game sprite or Mr Sugimori didn't take heed to the colouration of the game sprite. We shall not know the truth for a while though. However, I am curious as to how a real Shiny Toxicroak would be portrayed in the anime now. Hmm.

Not sure whether this has been stated before now. But i'd say that more-or-less extinguishes the speculation that Saturn's Toxicroak is Shiny.

I dont know, but this whole if its shiny or not thing is confusing me. I guess I have to see the episode myself to understand it more. but I'm going to wait for the dub version since its coming in about 2 weeks according to Serebii.

Paul: It me hi. So you need to send me Electabuzz sense were preparing for the pastoria gym.
Reggie: Pastoria huh? Guess it is Electabuzz's turn. Thats right, your old friend Ash has been here, you know, the trainer that has the a pikachu that uses volt tackle you told me about, interesting guy, i like him.
Paul: Well I suppose you would.
Reggie: Guess what? He earned the cobble badge today.
Paul: So what? Anyone can win at the veilstone gym.

This turned out to be a pretty good episode. I loved the Croagunk/Toxicroak staredown and them accidently sending Team Rocket blasting off.

The whole Galatic plot seems a lot different from the main game, except for the goal of course. I suspect that it is dealing more with the plot of the Platinum game. Or it could be (gasp) an original plot the writers came up with.

Pikachu and Electabuzz seem to have buried the proverbial hatchet. Perhaps this could make an impact in the future.

Overall, this was a good episode. Here's hoping that the writers don't screw Team Galatic over like they did to Team Magma/Aqua.

This episode was good! It was a great way to finish the Veilstone City story arc. Pikachu & Electrebuzz sure made a great team. I like how Pikachu cut took ropes from Team Galactic's helicopter with Volt Tackle.

This episode was good! It was a great way to finish the Veilstone City story arc. Pikachu & Electrebuzz sure made a great team. I like how Pikachu cut took ropes from Team Galactic's helicopter with Volt Tackle.

Team Galactic and the Croagunk vs. Toxicroak fight made this episode a little interesting. I was ticked off that they didn't played the Team Galactic battle team once. That was one of my favorite battle music in the game. I've also spotted a logical mistake. When Regi told Electibuzz to use thunder to throw Pikachu while using volt tackle, It didn't look like Electibuzz was using thunder. WTFP would be so proud that I spotted it.

Paul: It me hi. So you need to send me Electabuzz sense were preparing for the pastoria gym.
Reggie: Pastoria huh? Guess it is Electabuzz's turn. Thats right, your old friend Ash has been here, you know, the trainer that has the a pikachu that uses volt tackle you told me about, interesting guy, i like him.
Paul: Well I suppose you would.
Reggie: Guess what? He earned the cobble badge today.
Paul: So what? Anyone can win at the veilstone gym.

)--(

OLD FREIND???

That part made me laugh how Reggie said Ash is Paul's friend. Wow, it was awkward and funny.

Originally Posted by Dattebayo

I've also spotted a logical mistake. When Regi told Electibuzz to use thunder to throw Pikachu while using volt tackle, It didn't look like Electibuzz was using thunder. WTFP would be so proud that I spotted it.

Actually Reggie said Thunder in Japanese version as well and they go by translating close enough to the english version.

This episode was good, I liked it overall, and the music volume was a bit higher than usual. So it was nice. One of my fave part was the phone conversation that Paul and Reggie had, and as well Toxicroak and Crogunk battling. It was too funny. The only disappointment I had that Satoshi no Theme wasn't played around the end, it was replaced the dub boring music.

This episode was pretty good. I love Saturn's voice and Toxicroak had a cool voice, too.
The part where Toxicroak and Croagunk were staring at each other was funny.
Paul sure is fast. Ash just saw him a few episodes ago and now he's all the way in Pastoria!
7/10

That part made me laugh how Reggie said Ash is Paul's friend. Wow, it was awkward and funny.

That's more of a brother teasing tactic. They are brothers afterall. Makes perfect sense.

Wow, I gotta admit, they finished off Veilstone quite nicely. To put it in perspective, it took them half a season to show off Team Aqua. It took them a little longer to cameo Galactic, a bit longer to show them in action, and roughly a whole season for Ash and co. to finally know who the heck they are. The writers certainly took their sweet time.

Great episode, Saturn is the type of guy you really don't want to mess with. I was amazed that even though Saturn attacked TR with Toxicroak, they didn't blast off till later. Which is good. TR deserves to weigh a little more.

Jessie annoyed by the "Rockets" with a fashion sense was quite entertaining. I also thought it was funny that Meowth and James are impressed by TG's equipement.

Croagunk seemed downright annoyed by Toxicroak, and not having beat it's evolved form seemed to really tick it off. I was also impressed that Pikachu and Electabuzz set aside their "rivalry" and helped each other out. Thunder Tackle was awesome, and considering the uber class of Pikachu made sense.

Overall, lots of nice game mentions and finally the revelation of Team Galactic to the main cast. The writers seem to be putting much more time and effort into this "storyline" than previously thought. At least, whatever storyline this thing has to begin with.

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This episode was cool. I found it hilarious when the Saturn Leader retaliated against TR during their motto. Ash should’ve done that years ago. It was cool to see a Toxicroak and a Dark Pulse. It was also funny how TR got mad about Team Galactic having “Team” in their name. After seeing this episode, I wonder why Croagunk had such a problem with Toxicroak. Maybe that'll be explained in a future episode.

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